Forum mondial des Universités 2011

Welcome to the website of the World Universities Forum. In 2011, the Forum will be held at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong from 14 to 16 January. The Forum examines the role and future of the University in a changing world. It is ambitious in its intellectual and practical, agenda-setting scope, and broad in its themes.
The World Universities Forum is held annually in different locations around the world. The Forum was held in Davos, Switzerland in 2008; in conjunction with the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, Mumbai, India in 2009; and in the Congress Center Davos, Davos, Switzerland in 2010.
What are academics to do? Which are the pivotal questions of our time, and how can universities address these questions, and be seen to be addressing them? How can they create ideas, practice innovation, and make their presence pervasively felt in the public imagination? How can universities define problems, set intellectual agendas, propose credible ways forward and figure solutions which address the major challenges and opportunities for people and planet? What should they be teaching and how should they be teaching it?